2023 General Elections: The Die Is Cast
This week in February 2023 marks a very important milestone in the year-long preparations for the Nigerian general elections expected to commence with the presidential and National Assembly elections on 25th February 2023.
This will be followed by the governorship and state house of assembly elections on 11th March 2023.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) also issued deadlines to political parties to end all manner of campaigns. The deadlines are 23rd February for presidential and National Assembly, and 9th March 2023 for governorship and state house of assembly campaigns.
The 2023 general elections are important to all reasonable Nigerians because of the need to reverse the poor political and economic situation in the country.
There have been unprecedented unemployment rates, general hardship in terms of hunger, insecurity, abuse of power, judicial rascality and injustice across the land. There’s an urgent need for God’s intervention through the general elections, which are taking the Nigerian nation a lot of resources, and the INEC authorities are seriously vigilant to see how the elections will go.
The electorate also has a role to play in observing and keeping to the rules of the elections. Expectedly, the winners of the elections will be inaugurated on 29 May 2023, the former date of Democracy Day.
What is special about the 2023 general elections is that INEC was given enough time and money to prepare. The scope of preparations leaves no room for excuses.
The deployment of technology and use of the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) machines have added more positive electoral value to the exercise as it makes INEC’s work less cumbersome.
The Nigerian people are once again afforded the golden opportunity to make a wise choice on who will become their leaders as the elections unfold.
The youth must eschew violence and conduct themselves responsibly as the new leadership will expectedly address the problem of the youth as well as other issues bedeviling the nation.
Let us keep our fingers crossed and pray that the elections turn out great. We believe in the various prayer interventions of Catholic bishops and the entire faithful of the Church and dedicate such to the intercessory hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The die is really cast.
